Tweet Derrick Tennant has been doing comedy for as long as he can remember. Unfortunately, since he has Alzheimer’s, that might not be very long. Hey! who’s counting, math major? Get it? Like it? Then you’ve gotta see Tennant this Saturday at ApplexJax Sports Bar & Lounge, Albany’s only comedy club. Hate it? Then stay [...]

Tweet Using his young appearance to his advantage, Clint Nohr immediately establishes a rapport with the audience. He combines sharp writing with a likable approach to taboo topics. Nohr brings the heat time and time again and his edgy, thought-provoking comedy leaves audiences thinking how he’s going to top that last joke. Audiences and critics [...]

Tweet As government employees take unpaid furloughs, Georgia is still having trouble making its budget. While this is happening, Georgia still owns more state-owned cars and trucks than any other state in Southeast. We spend millions more of our tax dollars on those vehicles than other states. Mississippi has 7,541, Louisiana 12,740, Florida has roughly [...]

Tweet WHAT: A sixth-annual event celebrating Albany’s most important natural resource: The Flint River. Rivers Alive is a state initiative that encourages cleanups along all 70,150 miles of Georgia’s rivers, lakes and streams. WHEN/WHERE: Walkers meet at Third Avenue and the Flint River. Canoes and kayaks will not enter the water during this clean-up because [...]

Tweet Staff reports As if Albany needed to hit in the stomach again. On the heels of city hall corruption indictments and amidst a slump in which the community seems to lose a manufacturer every year comes the revelation that the Albany metropolitan statistical area is among the 10 poorest communities in the nation. The [...]

Tweet Wow! What an honor! Albany has been named one of the ten poorest places to live in the entire country! If you’re bring home is under $20,000 a year, you can take a little pride in knowing that you personally helped make this possible. Hey, if the saga of Balloon Boy is any measure, [...]